> I'd like to use an automated "unwrap" feature. Does such a
> thing exist in vim? Or a unix/linux command primitive I can
> integrate (similar to the way I use 'map v {!}fmt^M' to fix
> paragraph wrap while I'm editing them?
If I understand what you're doing, if you have your 'textwidth'
property set to
what you want, you can use
gqip
to reformat the paragraph you're currently sitting on. This
should work on platforms that don't have "fmt" available.
> Even better, might vim include a programmable feature now or
> in the future to automatically make non-wrapped lines look
> like wrapped lines much like WYSIWYG editors do?
Well, Vim does offer the 'wrap' option
:set linebreak wrap tw=0
Your lines should then visually wrap, but not have embedded line
breaks.
If you want to join all the lines in a paragraph, you can use
vipJ
or, if you want to do it over your entire document, you can do
things like
:g/^\s*\n.*\S/+norm vipJ
You can tweak that expression to find (or exclude) whatever you want.
Any of those should be mappable if you want.
If this doesn't do the trick, it might help to better explain
what you're looking for it to do.
-tim
